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Old 25th February 2007, 23:37
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Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann View Post
Hi Kuba,

Anders,

Darck colour around the entire fueselage: is this a fact or an illusion borne out of the prevailing light conditions when the shot was taken? Or was it again an all black machine, like "Green 5", 2./EJG 2?

Thanks for your inputs

Marc
I'm quite convinced that it's not the light, look at the enginecowling, there's no way that it's only a shadow doing that. Also, I think it looks the same on "Yellow 5" in the JaPo book. The well known photo of Yellow 7 from JG300 probably show the same camo too, only that the engine cowling was replaced causing the effect that there's a dark band around the forward part of the nose, which in reality would have been the remains of a "round the cowling" RLM83 or RLM81 camo.

Veltro: Thanks for the decal theory by the way, that would explain my last problem with my own theory...
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